In The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, starts out as just the story of how Henrietta lived. Throughout the novel, the author lists everything that the Lacks family went through in life. Rebecca Skloot made sure o include in the novel the exact details that the family experienced as well as what Henrietta herself experienced. Rebecca was sure to tell the story on Henrietta Lacks as the author just wanted to know more about Henrietta. In order for the author to do that she had to do her research to get all the information. Throughout the process of getting the information, the author was accused of getting all the information for money. The family thought she was being paid to gather all the information about Henrietta.
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The author is speaking to the concern of her audience just so they can fully understand more about HeLa cells and who Henrietta was and what she went through. The author states in the novel many tings like the treatment that Henrietta got and how the doctors just took her cervix cells without Henrietta knowing. The author also noted in the novel that Henrietta was treated with radiation but later down the road when Henrietta’s cancer spread, they had stopped treating it with radiation because it no longer worked. Along with Henrietta no longer getting the proper treatment, she also had no clue of the doctors experimenting with her cells as well as getting no knowledge of it for the rest of her …show more content…
In the novel, you can see that there is a lot of Pathos throughout it. It lists many things like the death and sadness. You read many parts in the book that are like this, especially in the Death part of the book. When Henrietta was in the hospital, everyone who knew she had cancer was sad. They were hoping and praying for her to recover from this but was disappointed when they learned the doctors were lying by saying she looks fine when she wasn’t. The minute the doctor’s put Henrietta on Morphine, she knew it was the end for her. During this portion of the book, Henrietta looked over at Gladys and told her she was going to die. Henrietta was already in so much pain from the cancer spreading to every organ in her body, that she felt and knew something was